Peters and Vezenkov dyed red in third place and now … FINAL Redemption for the “eternal”!

THE Olympic He showed that … he saw less like “chore”, taking the third place of this year’s Final Four of Abu Dhabi on the “eternal” opponent!



In a game where both teams played with many changes, open and aggressive basketball, with defenses going … walk, his team George Bardzoka prevailed more easily than shown the Panathinaikos’ final 97-93 In the Euroleague’s “Final of Consolation” a few days before they started The final … redemption of the Greek league and the last goal of the two teams this season!

The “reds” had the upper hand in the score from the start of the match, reaching several cases at +15, which was the maximum value of the difference. Indeed, 5:25 ‘, before the finale the score was 89-74, with the Greens not giving up and reducing to the basket (95-93), in the final second of the match.

Top for Piraeus, who completed the match with 13/27 three -pointers and Amazing number of 34 assists (!)was the Alec Peters and Sasha Vezenkovwhich have measured 55 points together! American forward had 32 points with 6/11 three -pointers and 7 rebounds (32 PIR), With Bulgarian superstar adding 23 points (5/6) and 3 steals. The excellent, Mouzes Wright with 19 points and 4 rebounds.

For the “clover”, a terrible appearance was made by the Omer Jurtseven with 23 points and 8 rebounds (25 pir), as did the Matthias Lesorwhich in 17:15 minutes of participation stood out with 12 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. At 14 left the Asma. Most positive and the Samondurov With 8 points and 4 rebounds in 13 minutes.

The match:

THE Olympic He started with Wokap, Fournier, Peters, Vezenkov and Fal in his original five, with Panathinaic For his own side to start the small final with Brown, Nan, Kalaitzakis, Mitoglou and Yourtseven. Those who got better and more appetizing the match were the “reds” who thanks to their baskets Peters and Vezenkov They left early in the score for 9-2 and 12-4 in 3lt.

With the “Greens” be very relaxed in defensethe typical hosts, and in particular the two players mentioned above, continued to “bomb” the opposing basket, with Peters scoring 13 points and Sasha 12 (7 in the semifinals) for +15 and 29-14 at 8 ‘, with both of them having 10/10! With Jurcheven and Nan connecting with the opposing basket and somewhat gathering the difference, The first quarter ended with the score at 33-20. Indeed, the Piraeus Piraeus with 13 assists in the period exceeded their performance in the match against Monaco (10x)!

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The reaction of ‘seventh’ came to the Principle of the second quarterwhere with the trio of Asmo, Lesor and Samondurov, It ran a quick 12-3 score, reducing the difference to 4 for 36-32 in the 13th minute. … Piraeus’s response was the Mouzes Wrightwho scored as he wanted, as he wanted, at a time when the three-pointers of Grand and Samondurov kept the “Greens” (44-40 at 15 ‘).

In the last part of the first half, Olympiacos managed to raise the difference to double-digit prices again, thanks to the actions of Wright (14p) and Lee, reaching +15 (57-42) to 18 ‘, with Nan and Plais sending both teams In the locker room with the score at 57-46, In a first half where the attacks dominated, since no team showed … the appetite to play defense. In fact, Barzoka’s whole wrote a story, breaking The first half assist with 21 final passes!

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Similar was the stage and In the third quarterwhere both the “eternal” continued to score with the defenses going … a walk. With them Yurtseven and Asma Start with successive baskets, but also Samondurov to be eliminated with a 5th foul, the Greens reduced to 8 and 60-52 to 23 ‘, with Fournier’ responding to his own 4-point series and 64-52, and Fal shortly thereafter with three points of his own points. He writes 67-54 at 24 ‘.

Somewhere there, Olympiacos took bad and hasty choices in the attack, which in combination with the executive ability of the ‘green’, They allowed the total of Ataman to run a 8-0 for 67-62 Four minutes later, with Peters standing in his 5th three-point, giving the typical home side (70-62) at 28 ‘. Askan and Vezenkov exchanged two -pointers afterwards, with the Bulgarian forward being behind 6.75m. In the finale, shaping the 75-64 of the period.

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To fourth and last period, Piraeus entered the parquet determined to “clear” the victory case and keep the difference in high numbers. With Peters and Vezenkov scoring their 6th and 5th three -pointer and Wright scoring three more points, Olympiacos went at +14 and 86-72 in 33 ‘. Two minutes later, a basket of the excellent Tonight Jurcheven and a three -point Larentzakis, They wrote 89-74, showing that the game was over there.

However, the Panathinaikos not only did he not give up, but he fought in the last five minutes, and with their Kalaitzaki, Yourtseven and Lesor Reduce with a lasting counterattack to 93-90, 11 seconds before the finale. Larentzakis ‘shots and Kalaitzakis’ big three-pointer shortly afterwards gave the small final (95-93) in the 4 ”, with Peters shaping the charity line from the line The final score 97-93.

The quarters: 33-20, 57-46, 75-64, 97-93.

See the statistics of the race here.